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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ceasar" data-source="post: 3426082" data-attributes="member: 26155">When I was in the army, many years ago,  there were 2 guys from Holland in my barracks who had immigrated to the USA when they were  children.   One was from Rotterdam and the other one was from Friesland.  When they spoke to each other in their native dialects they could not understand each other but when the guy from Friesland spoke simple sentences in his native dialect slowly like "the grass is green" and others like it everybody in the barracks could understand him.Both of them spoke American English like they were born here.Bob</blockquote>